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Life imprisonment required against Tyler Vilus, "the full jihadist"

2020-07-03T12:24:22.616Z


The Frenchman is notably accused of having participated in executions in Syria where he went in 2012. The verdict of the special assize court


Thursday, sick and feverish, the Advocate General began his indictment by depicting Tyler Vilus as "a full jihadist". Judged by the special assize court of Paris, this former emir of the Islamic State in Syria "is an exceptional case, unique in its kind", asserted the representative of the parquet floor who knows this accused like no other. This Friday morning, Guillaume Michelin had regained strength and his verve to complete his brilliant and relentless argument by claiming against this young man of 30 "the only possible solution": life imprisonment.

"With the maximum safety period which is only 22 years. Alas. Alas ”, he insists before concluding:“ This whole file is a pain. When you dissipate the smoke curtain behind Tyler Vilus, you only see corpses. When one comes out of the hypnosis into which his logorrhea plunges us, we hear nothing but deadly silence. It is up to you to put an end to this carnage. "

For the prosecution, his case is unprecedented in the annals of anti-terrorist justice. "There has never been a member of ISIS such as the accused to be tried," said Guillaume Michelin. […] Opening the Tyler Vilus file means opening the Directory of Francophone Jihad personalities. He knows almost all of them. Most of them are dead but he is in the box, which makes him an exceptional case. It is a deception. From Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the coordinator of the November 13 attacks, to the attackers of Bataclan, passing by Mehdi Nemmouche, the killer of the Jewish museum in Brussels, Le Troyen rubbed shoulders in Syria with all that Daesh had produced.

"An alibi for its exacerbated violence"

In the eyes of the Advocate General, this turbulent adolescent was very early moved by "a frantic quest for violence" for which he sought a framework. Does the Foreign Legion refuse it? It is in Salafist Islam that he will find "an alibi for his exacerbated violence". A pioneer of jihad in Syria, he left in 2012 - he was able to climb the ranks of the Islamic State at full speed, but knowing how to stay under the radar of the intelligence services which will take a year and a half to detect its presence in the area.

In the summer of 2013, he was already emir of a katiba of Franco-Belgian fighters. "A warlord," according to the representative of the public prosecutor who, in the light of videos extracted from Abdelhamid Abaaoud's phone, compares the abuses of his group to "war crimes". “In March 2014, when his squadron moved to Shaddadi, he received a promotion: he became an Islamic policeman. Explains to him that he held the position of military police, to clear customs, but there is no evidence to that effect. On the other hand, the testimonies indicate that he was responsible for enforcing sharia law, patrolling the streets, dressing in civilian clothes to spot spies, repressing, punishing and punishing ”, says the Advocate General.

His privileged position within the Daesh security forces is central to the heaviest accusation he faces, that of having participated in the execution of two former soldiers of the Free Syrian Army in the spring of 2015 Tyler Vilus was spotted on a video that the Court returned to slow motion Thursday morning to identify the exact role played by the French in this crime which earned him to incur perpetuity.

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The accused, who is in the front row alongside the executioners, claims to have come across this dramatically banal scene of life in Daesh. "I am present on the scene, yes I carry a walkie-talkie and a weapon but at no time do I see myself acting. It's overinterpretation, ”he swears. But for the Advocate General, his function, his equipment and his positioning are hardly in doubt: "he is not the one who shoots but he is one of those who participate in securing this execution".

"Horror is always the prerequisite for another horror"

Guillaume Michelin goes further. These atrocities should, he said, be assessed in terms of his plans to return to Europe. "He trained to kill in Syria to return to kill in France," he asserts. At Tyler Vilus, horror is always the prerequisite for another horror. After denying it during the investigation, the accused finally admitted at the hearing that, when he was arrested in Istanbul (Turkey) in July 2015 with a ticket for Prague (Czech Republic) in his pocket, he for ambition to "die with arms in hand". "But he is not credible when he says that he had decided on his target. […] It is intended to return to Europe, probably in Paris, to perpetrate a mass killing, ”explains the Advocate General. And the magistrate to underline the satisfaction expressed by the accused on social networks when he learns the gesture of "his friend Mehdi Nemmouche": "Spilling the blood of the disbelievers is for Tyler Vilus jubilant! "

His possible implication in the attacks of November 13 was considered but was not retained by the justice. "Only he knows, philosopher Guillaume Michelin. But if that had been the case, he would not have been a simple member of the commando, he would have been one of those responsible, even responsible. "

Defense must speak at the end of the morning. The verdict is expected in the evening.

Source: leparis

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